X-Message-Number: 18995
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:08:56 -0400
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Subject: Future disease


We will continuously discover new diseases as we increase our technical 
knowledge.  An example is prion disease.  We didn't have the ability to even 
identify it until ~20 years ago.  Imagine a world that must infectious and 
structural diseases can be routinely cured.  Nanotechnology gains widespread use
in medicine (not too far off IMHO).  Either a deviant individual, organization,
or even spontaneous code generation creates a worm that infects the nano repair
army.  Imagine the chaos this could impart.  A future disease.  By the way, 
Chaos theory seems to understated in many previous posts
James R Hughes, MD PhD 

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